Yup…thats right. 7.5 grand for TV service. But…this isnt any normal TV service. oh, and by the way, thats 7.5 grand per year. oopsies! 
Anyways…by signing up…you get
Every Channel
Every Movie
Every Pay Per View
Every Sporting Event
Every Adult Program
Every HDTV Channel
10 HD DVR receivers
and Conceirge Service 24/7
And…they dont leave ANYTHING out. Interesting eh?
Brought to you by DirectTV-Titanium. If anyones got the money and the time for this….get it here! and…tell me how it is will ya?
Well, Google is building a sumpercomputer. As is to be expected, little knowledge is availible about the details, but here’s an exerpt from the article :
“The design and even the nature of the Google center in this
industrial and agricultural outpost 80 miles east of Portland [Oregon] has been
a closely guarded corporate secret. “Companies are historically
sensitive about where their operational infrastructure is,”
acknowledged Urs Holzle, Google’s senior vice president for operations.
Behind
the curtain of secrecy, the two buildings here — and a third that
Google has a permit to build — will probably house tens of thousands of
inexpensive processors and disks, held together with Velcro tape in a
Google practice that makes for easy swapping of components. The cooling
plants are essential because of the searing heat produced by so much
computing power.
The complex will tap into the region’s large surplus of fiber optic networking, a legacy of the dot-com boom.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1150257600&en=4b91d1f7096cf107&ei=5094&partner
=homepage&oref=slogin
Sure, its just a normal 37 inch HDTV, sure they claim that its really thin….but, how many of these HDTVs you see are TWO CM Thick? and weigh 2.2 POUNDS?
Ok, sure, i dont know why the article switches between units etc, and im too lazy to go and convert.
Anyways, iFire has created such a thing. Rejoice! It uses TDELs (thick film dialectric electroluminescent technology) phew, mouthful. Its less expensive and thinner than lcds or plasma. It uses a phosphor sheet as a backlight, and heres the holy grail. No…it is NOT selling at $2000000 a piece, its….*drum roll* $300!!! DEAR GOD. REJOICE AL YE TV CRAZED FANS! Check out the article here
To summarize : In the 6th or 7th century, Lating scribes shortened the word ad (the Latin word for at or to) to an a with the d sort of curled around it. Jump ahead a ways, to the 1800’s, and @ appeared on typewriters, to signify a price “I’ll take 3 @ $2.50.”
“Then, one day in late 1971, computer engineer Ray Tomlinson
grappled with how to properly address what would be history’s very
first e-mail. After 30 seconds of intense thought, he decided to
separate the name of his intended recipient and their location by using
the “@” symbol. He needed something that wouldn’t appear in anyone’s
name, and settled on the ubiquitous symbol, with the added bonus of the
character representing the word “at,” as in,
hey_you@wherever_you_happen_to_work.com.”
http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3148
Leading the list at #1 : AOL
Ending the list at #25 : Sharp R3D3 notebook (2004)
A few honorable metions :
2. Real Player.
15. Iomega Zip Drives. When the drive died, it took the data with it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/125772;_ylt=AgBaLpkLqy6JZ8IeykkbhBMjtBAF;_ylu=
X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA–
Magnetic tape has been renewed as a data storage method. Many large companies use magnetic tape to store backups, text files, and other random stuff that they need to be in compliance with rules and regs, but will probably never use. The magnetic tape is anywhere from 10%-20% cheaper than conventional hard drive storage.
Read a little more about it
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19164100%5E15321%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
HHO Gas?….very very odd…..the video is interesting…it looks legit…but…I dont know….HHO would be a very odd molecule. a structure like this: H-H<–O
a single bond and a coordinate bond…i dont think thats even possible. A possiblity was mentioned by one person, of Browns Gas, aka monatomic Hydrogen and oxygen mixed up in there, that provides the energy, but thats still very odd, if they can use that for efficient energy production. But hey, if it works….im not going to complain. Watch the movie here!
Thats kinda wierd. but…sure. So, some british person is the first in Britain…and im guessin the world…to conceive a baby that has been modified especially to avoid inherited cancer. Interesting…check out the article here!
I always knew there was “credit” in the 1920’s, but I never knew that early credit cars were issued like “private money”, valid at certain locations that accepted the cards in lieu of atual money. In the 50’s, credit card were paper cards were a retailer coppied the information from the card, contacted the bank to check that the purchaser had the credit, and the bank paid the store, then collected the fees from the buyer at a later date. The familiar magnetic strip wasn’t intoduced until the 1980’s.
http://universalfacts.blogspot.com/2005/11/credit-card-history-its-evolution.html
(We interrupt this editor’s war to bring you and actual entry!)
Well, it’s possible. There are other reactors of its type still out there. According to the article, Russian nuclear plant workers need to moonlight as taxi drivers to make a living….not exactly motivated, highly-trained personnel……
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060422/ap_on_sc/chernobyl_again_2
Speaking of Chernobyl, the cap that was built over the reactor is in need of replacement. Soon.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060422/ap_on_sc/chernobyl_crumbling_shelter_2